That said, I’ve also seen Proton GE mend a missing audio problem in Persona 4 Golden without fuss, so I still recommend it. And I say “initially” because a few days later I tried again and Proton GE suddenly did the trick, despite neither it nor the game receiving any updates. I found this out myself after trying to fix an unplayable cutscene problem in Ghostwire: Tokyo – Proton GE didn’t initially work for me, despite it fixing the same issue for other Steam Deck players. While Proton GE can help with the Deck’s compatibility shortcomings, it’s bleeding-edge by design and therefore has no guarantee of perfect results. And you can choose which specific games to use Proton GE with – installing it is nothing as scary as replacing as the whole OS.
As such it’s an almost essential addition to your Steam Deck, especially if you want to venture outside the Valve-approved list of Steam Deck Verified games. In a lot of cases, it can even fix game-breaking issues with missing cutscenes or game audio that Proton can’t, due to the latter’s lack of certain key media libraries. It adds in new patches, fixes and tools that are either absent from the main, stable Proton release or just haven’t been included yet. Proton GE (Glorious Eggroll – I don’t get it either, but I like it) is a kind of unofficial spinoff of Proton.
The good news is that knowing how to install Proton GE on the Steam Deck can, potentially, fix them. The bad news is that, as some Deck owners are now discovering, not every game makes the jump without technical problems.
There are thousands of games originally built without Linux/Steam Deck functionality in mind, but can work more or less flawlessly after passing through the Proton layer. Proton, the compatibility software Valve uses to help Windows games work on the Linux-based Steam Deck, is quite the achievement.
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